Black halter top... so close!
Aaargh!
Well, I was progressing along nicely. Shirring the back took forever (and used up all my black elastic thread). It’s kinda boring, really. Thank goodness for podcasts. And it took three or four different attempts to get the triangle tops put on with the gathers distributed nicely; they’re still not perfect but I think they’ll do. And then I hemmed it and measured the front and put in the buttonholes (why does it always mess up on the very last buttonhole? why?) and started merrily sewing on the buttons and…
My fronts aren’t even.
There is a significant gap where the buttonhole side is longer than the button side.
Back looks pretty good.
WTF? The pattern pieces were identical, I promise you. Were the top parts sewn asymmetrically? Possibly, but not by the inch-inch and a half that they’re off.
No, the culprit in this case is my eyeballed hemming. For some reason when I was ironing the hems I couldn’t find the little hem measurer that I keep downstairs with the iron, so I eyeballed it.
My bad, apparently.
Not un-fixable, but yet another seam to rip out. Maybe I’ll remember to pick up a seam ripper today.
/sigh
Like my buttons? Unlike my uneven hems?
But the shirt as a whole is looking pretty good, if a little scanty in the bottom-half coverage. I’ll have to think about drafting that downward dip in the front that was there in my original drawing.
Tanit-Isis Sews 
I hear you. I’m actually a dedicated eyeballer, but it does make problems more often than not. One of the reasons why I usually try to do them hemming as the very last part of sewing… 😉